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Geography fieldwork month

By Geography

October was “Geography fieldwork month” in St.Alban’s. Fieldwork is where you go outside the classroom and find things out for yourself. Over the last month, our students have had the opportunity to explore the local area and learn in a more practical, hands-on way in geography.

Each class was given a different enquiry question that they had to try and answer using a variety of progressive fieldwork skills. Children across school completed maps, surveys, time sampling, tallys, pictograms and digital mapping linked to their enquiry question. Children then used the information that they had gathered to draw their own conclusions. Many years groups were able to compare results with the data collected last year and carefully considered possible reasons for any changes.

Yesterday, each class had the opportunity to present their findings to the rest of the school. Children were very adept at explaining what they did and what they found out. I will post again with pictures from each classes fieldwork tasks once I have collected these from staff members. Well done St.Alban’s- we are all geographers!

22/11/2024
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Year 4 Geography Fieldwork

By Geography, Year 4

Fieldwork is when you go outside the classroom and find things out for yourself. Today, Year 4 started our geography fieldwork by trying to answer the question- What is there in Wickersley?
We counted the various business types, e.g. Take-Aways, Pharmacies etc. We made a tally and we will use that data to created a bar chart. We will also use Digimaps to plot our course and think about how we feel about various areas of Wickersley.

 

16/10/2024
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Year 5 Geography Fieldwork

By Geography, Maths, Year 5

Fieldwork is when you go outside the classroom and find things out for yourself.

Today, Year 5 started our geography fieldwork by trying to answer the question- How busy is Morthen Road?

We counted the different vehicles and made a tally chart to collect our results. Everyone took part in the time sampling. We will create a line graph to show the information we have collected.

 

03/10/2024
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Y2 Local History

By Geography, History, Year 2

For our local history project, Year 2 have been learning about Joe Lister who was a significant person in the local area. First, we linked our history learning with the geography of the local area by comparing a modern day map with a historical map of the local area while considering how Listerdale changed over time. Joe Lister built the Listerdale estate in the 1930’s, building affordable housing for many poorer people at the time. This greatly impacted the local area, as its population increased significantly and Joe Lister created jobs for many people at a time when jobs were scarce. We created a timeline of Joe Lister’s life, sequencing the key events within his lifetime. We used cubes to help us think about this with each cube representing 1 year of Joe Lister’s life.

We then went on a walk around the local area and the Listerdale estate where Joe Lister built 40 detached houses and 650 semi-detached houses. We visited Lister’s castle which is where Joe Lister and his family lived. We were lucky enough to be invited into the grounds by the current groundskeeper and he even gave us a copy of Joe Lister’s biography “Joe Lister Master Builder.” When walking around the Listerdale estate, we noticed the different patterns on the buildings and the letters on the houses that were the initials of Joe Lister’s family members.  The children had lots of fun and were excited to find more out about the history of our local area!

26/06/2024
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Geography in Year 5 – Global Trade

By Geography, Year 5

Trade is the buying and selling of goods and services we want and need.

When we think about trade as geographers, we consider the scale of trade and think about how trade links places and people.

Everything we want and need cannot be sourced within the national borders of the United Kingdom. We therefore import items such as food products from other countries. We import some goods into our country for sale and we export other goods which means we send goods to other countries for sale.

The physical geography of the UK prevents us from growing certain foods here.

This week in geography, we have been looking at the packaging of different food to see where it was produced.  We discussed the country of origin and the continent and presented our work on a map using an atlas to make sure we located different countries correctly.

 

20/03/2024
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Geography in Year 2

By Geography

Year 2 have started learning about the 7 continents of the world. We practiced locating these on our very own balloon “globes.” To help us do this, we first added the equator around the middle of the balloons to use as a reference point. We also located the North and South Poles, placing Antarctica at the bottom of our “globes”.  Some children decided to colour in the different continents with the flag of one of the countries within that continent! The children had fun learning about the 7 continents and their locations in a hands on, practical way. 

12/01/2024
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Year 2 Geography Fieldwork- “How do Children at St.Alban’s travel to school?”

By Geography, Year 2

Fieldwork is where you go outside the classroom to find things out for yourself. Year 2 have been doing lots of fieldwork this month linked to our enquiry question- “How do children at St.Alban’s travel to school?”

To answer this question, we conducted a transport survey where we went to the other classes in school and asked the children how they came to school that day. Children recorded their findings using a tally.

When back in class, we combined our results for the 6 classes into one table showing how many children at St.Alban’s come to school in a car and how many children either walked, cycled, scootered or caught a bus to school. 110 children came to school in a car but only 70 children walked, cycled, scootered or caught a bus to school. The children presented these results in a pictogram using a key where each symbol represented 10 children.

We discussed the negative impact that cars have on the environment. Year 2 think that, as a school, we could improve our environmental impact by walking if possible! They shared this conclusion with the whole-school during our fieldwork assembly.

Children have also been working hard on DigiMaps. Y2 created a digital map measuring the distance between their house and school. We discussed that the distance they walk/drive may be further as they cannot travel in a straight line through houses and other obstacles. Well done Year 2!

24/11/2023
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Whole school Geography Fieldwork month!

By FS2, Geography, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

October was “Geography fieldwork month” in St.Alban’s. Fieldwork is where you go outside the classroom and find things out for yourself. Over the last month, our students have had the opportunity to explore the local area and learn in a more practical, hands-on way in geography.

Each class was given a different enquiry question that they had to try and answer using a variety of progressive fieldwork skills. Children across school completed maps, surveys, time sampling, tallys, pictograms and digital mapping linked to their enquiry question. Children then used the information that they had gathered to draw their own conclusions.

Today, each class had the opportunity to present their findings to the rest of the school. Children were very adept at explaining what they did and what they found out. Well done St.Alban’s- we are all geographers!

24/11/2023
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